Alliance Tournament IX: Darkside.

Newcomers a year before in the Eighth Alliance Tournament, DarkSide. had quickly made a name for themselves with a quarter-final performance that year. In the Ninth Alliance Tournament they catapulted themselves into Tournament history by ending the reign of Pandemic Legion and knocking them out in convincing fashion. In one fell swoop they blew the Tournament field wide open and made Shadoo the happiest man in the world.